Kurant and Hostopia Team to Deliver StoreSense
E-Business Solution to Hosting Companies and ISPs
[July 19, 2004]
SAN
FRANCISCO & FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Jul 19, 2004 (BUSINESS
WIRE) -- Kurant Corporation, a leading provider of e-business
software for small and medium-sized businesses, and
Hostopia.com, award-winning wholesale provider of turnkey
Web, e-mail and e-commerce hosting solutions, today
announced an agreement by which Hostopia will resell
Kurant's StoreSense e-business solution to its network
of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Web Service
Providers worldwide.
Hostopia
is one of the world's fastest growing private label
wholesale Web hosting serving over 270 service providers
who, combined have over 125,000 merchants. According
to Paul D. Engels, vice president, marketing for Hostopia,
"StoreSense is in high demand by our partners because
it appeals to novice users and sophisticated e-businesses
alike. Unlike other branded solutions we have tested,
StoreSense defines Telco-grade reliability and delivers
combined business benefits of enhanced revenue flow
and margins with reduced support costs and customer
appeal for end-users."
Kurant's
StoreSense is a four-time winner of PC Magazine's "Editors'
Choice." Business pay a monthly recurring fee to
use it, and have a choice of four progressively scalable
license types: "Starter," "Standard,"
"Professional" and "Professional Plus."
The benefit of a monthly license is constant upgrades
for users delivered via a hosted ASP-type model that
can be scaled centrally to meet the most demanding merchant
needs.
"With
70 percent of small businesses in the U.S. having an
online presence, or planning to have one by the end
of the year, the market demand for e-business solutions
is at an all-time high," said Curtis Pierce, president
and CEO of Kurant. "Merchants want a solution that
combines ease-of-use with advanced features and scaleable
technology. Hostopia has powerful reach into a vast
network of service providers who serve end-users and
they have the proven high-performance infrastructure
and support to ensure optimal market success."
Hostopia
is pre-releasing Kurant's StoreSense to selected private
label partners in July and launching worldwide on its
network in August.
About
StoreSense
Kurant
StoreSense is a complete suite of powerful e-business
tools that are designed to help small businesses get
started selling online quickly and easily. StoreSense's
rich feature set ranges from simple wizard-driven Web
site and e-store capabilities to sophisticated site
design tools, advanced commerce functionality and high-end
e-business management. In addition, for the first time,
smaller merchants can now manage the entire process
of posting and selling products on eBay using the intuitive
interface they use to manage their online StoreSense
stores.
About
Hostopia
Hostopia
provides private-branded hosting, email and e-commerce
solutions to Telco's, ISPs, cable companies, domain
registrars, and other Web Service Providers. Hostopia's
automated provisioning and support platforms enable
service providers to increase their hosting revenues
and profits while delivering a superior feature set
to their end-user business customers. Hostopia's WebhostOS
is a breakthrough technology that creates a single system
for managing "UNIX/Windows" applications.
Its clustered server environment allows enterprises
to benefit from sophisticated hosting features normally
associated with high-cost, non-redundant dedicated servers
at "shared hosting" prices.
About
Kurant
Kurant
Corporation provides software that enables small businesses
to conduct business online through dynamic, interactive
Web sites. StoreSense, our flagship product, is a comprehensive
e-commerce platform that allows companies to easily
add commerce to an existing Web site or create a sophisticated
Web Store including: inventory management, supplier
communication and integration with Quickbooks. StoreSense
is delivered to small businesses through Kurant's global
resellers that include financial service organizations,
Web hosting companies and trusted small business partners.
Incorporated in 1998, San Francisco-based Kurant is
privately held. For more information, contact Kurant
at www.kurant.com or 888-463-2696.
NOTE:
Brands and products referenced herein are the trademarks
or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
SOURCE:
Kurant
Kurant
Curtis Pierce, 415-391-7255 ext. 16
curtis@kurant.com
or
Hostopia.com
Franc Nemanic, 866-467-8674
fnemanic@hostopia.com |
